Status:

TERMINATED

Cranial Electro Therapy Stimulation in Reducing Perioperative Anxiety

Lead Sponsor:

University of Oklahoma

Conditions:

Anxiety

Eligibility:

All Genders

50-90 years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

Cranial electro stimulation (CES) provides safe, adequate, side-effect free sedation without excessive drowsiness in preoperative settings.

Detailed Description

CES Alpha-Stim is a non-invasive device which has been in place and has been approved for patients to reduce anxiety by the FDA. This study involves the use of CES Alpha-Stim device applied to the pat...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients of both genders between 50 and 90 years old scheduled for an outpatient "first eye" cataract phacoemulsification with topical anesthesia.
  • ASA classification I II and III

Exclusion

  • ASA classification IV (patients with a chronic or severe disease).
  • Hypersensitivity to midazolam or benzodiazepines
  • acute narrow-angle glaucoma
  • untreated open-angle glaucoma
  • Patients with any sort of psychiatric or neurological disorder
  • Patients on anti-anxiety medication
  • Patients who have demand-type pacemakers installed before 1999\* \*Note: These are the exclusions listed for liability purposes by Alpha-Stim. There are no FDA exclusions.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2009

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 1 2012

Estimated Enrollment :

115 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00928772

Start Date

July 1 2009

End Date

February 1 2012

Last Update

April 20 2017

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Oklahoma City VA Medical Center

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73104